Threatened Species and other Nominations

The Scientific Committee of the ACT is undertaking public consultation on a nomination for the Unnatural Fragmentation of Habitats to be listed as a Key Threatening Process.

A threatening process is a process that threatens, or may threaten, the survival, abundance or evolutionary development of a native species or ecological community. Under the Nature Conservation Act 2014, a threatening process is eligible for listing if it:

could cause a native species or an ecological community to become eligible for listing as threatened; or

could cause a threatened native species or a threatened ecological community to become eligible to be listed in a higher category of threat; or

adversely affects 2 or more threatened native species (other than conservation dependent species) or 2 or more threatened ecological communities.

The Scientific Committee is particularly interested in receiving submissions that provide additional evidence and information to support the nomination, especially in relation to individual species or ecological communities adversely impacted.

Following consultation, the Scientific Committee will decide whether to recommend to the Minister for the Environment that the process be listed as a Key Threatening Process.